Skin Deep Dance Studio in North Beacon Hill is looking for someone to work the front desk on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings from 5-8 p.m. Duties include cleaning, signing people into computer and selling merchandise in the boutique, as well as some data entry and social networking on Facebook. Pay is $10 per hour. For information, call 206-322-9500.

A Beacon in the International District: Beacon Hill dance crew Massive Monkees have opened their new dance studio, The Beacon, on South King Street. The studio partners with a local non-profit group (also founded by Massive Monkees members) to host a free after-school program and other activities. Wondering about the name? According to the Northwest Asian Weekly, crew member Brysen “JustBe” Angeles says “We grew up on Beacon Hill. We grew up by Jefferson Community Center. It was the place where we started attending youth programs. It was the place where mentors like us, when they were the age we are now, were teaching youth programs. The other meaning is a beacon of light in Seattle for performing artists who are the best at our craft to share our experiences.” — Northwest Asian Weekly

The largest brothel in the world — perhaps — was once located on Beacon Hill. Later, the building was destroyed by a B-50 bomber. Yes, really. — Seattle Times

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Follow-up on the brothel, aka Lester Apartments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Apartments): The mayor and the police chief built the brothel to better control the taxation of prostitutes in the beginning of the 1900s (there were 500 prostitutes in the city at the time, therefore the 500 rooms in the new brothel). The brothel was the last straw with the people of Seattle, and the it gave the temperance organizations and suffragists the traction they needed to kick out the corrupt mayor and police chief. Since the mayor and chief were also heavily invested in Luna Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Park,_Seattle), their exodus from political power also lead to the eventual closing of the amusement park on Alki Beach in West Seattle.